Daily Archives: March 8, 2017

A week ago, I showed you my first attempt at amigurumi, following a pattern by A Morning Cup Of Jo, available for free download on Ravelry. It was far from perfect, but that’s to be expected . . . it was my first attempt at following a pattern and I only started teaching myself to crochet a couple of weeks ago.

Anyway, me being me . . . I just had to sit down and make it a second time. To improve on all the mistakes I made first time around, and to prove to myself that I could read a pattern if I set my mind to it.

And voilà ! I won’t tell you how many times I pulled the yarn out and started again, because I lost count on my seventh (or was it eighth?) attempt. This matters not lol . . . I have something that looks a lot more like it’s supposed to . . . and I even managed to give it pointy ears.

Here he is, next to the first attempt. Purple owlet felt tiny & fiddly when I was crocheting him, but just look how small the second one turned out!

Teeny tiny.

And definitely looking more like Jo’s original owlets. I think I should have attached the eyes even lower?

The question now is . . . do I go ahead and make a third one until I really get it spot on? or do I make something different next time? Hmmm decisions decisions . . .

I’m certainly not short of yarn. Went totally mad last week and now have lots of lovely colours to play with.

Bought these Stylecraft Special DK colours on-line along with

safety eyes and a row counter. Safety eyes won’t be needed until I become more competent. For my trials, I’ll just be using beads & buttons for eyes. And then, while in a local bargain basement store, I bought

I think this might be 4ply but I’m a total dimwit where yarn goes. All I know is, label says to use a 3mm or 3.5mm hook, which I did (3.5mm), and this is what I used for my aqua owlet who turned out very small. 1.5” tall.